Build Libtorrent

In this article, we describe how to build libtorrent on different platforms

Windows

Boost

1. Download the source code from http://www.boost.org/users/download/
2. Extract in C:\Program files\Boost
3. Run command line as administrator
4. In the command line run

cd C:\Program files\Boost\boost_A_B_C
bootstrap.bat
b2 variant=release address-model=64 link=static,shared

Here boost_A_B_C is the downloaded version of Boost (e.g. boost_1_77_0).

5. Add the following paths to PATH:

C:\Program Files\Boost\boost_A_B_C
C:\Program Files\Boost\boost_A_B_C\stage\lib

6. Create the BOOST_BUILD_PATH environment variable with the value C:\Program Files\Boost\boost_A_B_C

openSSL

7. Download openSSL (NOT Light version) and install it

Libtorrent

8. Clone libtorrent with its submodules (use git clone --recurse-submodules link_to_git)
9. Run command line as administrator
10. In the command line run

cd PATH_TO_LIBTORRENT\bindings\python
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

Here PATH_TO_LIBTORRENT is the folder in which you have cloned libtorrent

Linux

Tested on Ubuntu 20.04

Boost

1. Open Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
2. Run the following commands

sudo apt install libboost-all-dev libboost-tools-dev libboost-dev libboost-system-dev
echo "using gcc ;" >>~/user-config.jam
b2 crypto=openssl cxxstd=14 release

OpenSSL

3. In command line run

sudo apt install libssl-dev

Libtorrent

8. Clone libtorrent with its submodules

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent.git

9. Open the cloned libtorrent folder in Terminal
10. Run

cd ./bindings/python
sudo python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install